Technical Information

Dimensions

Materials

Chronology

Hungerford chain suspension bridge is demolished, the chains are reused later in the construction of the Clifton bridge.

18 December 1864

Inauguration

Notes

Clifton Bridge would have been the longest-spanning bridge if it had been completed soon after it was designed, but for financial reasons it was not put into service until 1864. Brunel never saw this bridge
finished, he passed away before the funding problems were resolved. An alternative design by Thomas Telford would have had the same span as the Menai Straits Bridge.